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Timothy Brown May 2013
Do what I say,
not what I've done.
What I did was past tense
to the prose I've become.
Words spoken
shed truth
on the bells rung.
Pronouns succumb
to life underneath.
What has the sun shone?
Same thing moon's shunned.
Twirling thumbs
and grinding teeth.
Prone anxiety
beneath a fleet
of  coarse thread sheets.
Only fans speak,
oscillating on an
arrhythmic beat.  

What are the limits of your speech?

English, French and Spanish
when haphazardly
conscious.
Noun (Verb + adjective)  + predicate
is the constant
variable in
idioms.
It's an order of operations
within phrases
understood amongst
sages.
© May 30th, 2013 by Timothy Brown. All rights reserved
Timothy Brown May 2013
Bottled up like salad dressing.
Top on, sticky side down.
Put a little pressure on the pressing.
Call it depressing when you take the finger from the noun.
Wrap it around
in a figure eight turn.
Discern or nerves will churn.
Pain is the name of the burn
sensation.
Loosen it at the day's cessation
and keep it on for the duration.
The continuation of blood circulation
is key to the prevention of amputation.
Whether physically or metaphorically,
keeping an injury wrapped in a challis
is the best thing to keep a healthy tally.
© May 27th, 2013 by Timothy Brown. All rights reserved
Timothy Brown May 2013
It's a three pronged hum-a-long.
No captions while you sing-a-long.
Mumbling, stumbling
over words that don't belong
in your mouth.
© May 27th, 2013 by Timothy Brown. All rights reserved.
Timothy Brown May 2013
I'll love you ten times longer than you'll love me
© May 26th, 2013 by Timothy Brown. All rights reserved.
Timothy Brown May 2013
Rippling outward till the waves stop.
Dropped from a 5ft 10" skyscraper with a plop.

Perfect circles in precession,
stretching into regression
The placidity is eerie
as it returns with no sign of it's companion

The next one cast did a flip flop
across the liquid table top.

Those ripples again.
As if this lake had a brain,
it feigns space to detain
the stone and share knowledge arcane.  

The last one I decided to swap
I traded the lake's ripples for ones in my pocket.

Its a reason to return to the lake
The reason behind the pebble's wake
Scientifically, I know the make.
How is done, now why is at the stake.
,
© May 24th, 2013 by Timothy Brown. All rights reserved.
Timothy Brown May 2013
Spinning on the north pole.
Truth be told, it's being pulled
in all directions thus the spinning inflection.
A prosaic misdirection.

4 cardinal directions but when they conflate
you get eight.  If you prorate
in-between you get sixteen
directions you can take.

The only mistake you can choose is standing in place.
At the pace your face is rotating on your flesh case,
your bones will displace. your mind will efface
from it's designated space.


Don't be a waste. Move along.
Pick one of the 16 directions you can take
Whichever one you pick is the road you belong.
Just get to where your going before your swan song.
© May 23rd, 2013 by Timothy Brown. All rights reserved.
Timothy Brown May 2013
Outside a cafe
drinking coffee.

Structure of presence shows sagacity.
Every cup is filled with a black lie

Treating the table like a lanai
Deeming from a personal status quo.

Sunglasses can't hide the look you throw.
A split second glance at the askew

position of the public provided pew
lets me know to keep strolling by the cafe that day.
(AE) (EI) (IO) (OU) (UA)

© May 20th, 2013 by Timothy Brown. All rights reserved.
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